Numbers Game

But ten years later, our handshake deal isn’t enough; zero divided by any number still equals zero.

The house suffers our pitiless geometry. We burrow into our separate cells. In acute silence grudges multiply like mice.

This is a subtraction that compounds daily. We never mastered that higher branch of mathematics that could make our fractions whole.

Sandi Leibowitz is a native New Yorker who sings classical music, teaches, and writes fiction and poetry, mostly speculative. Her works appear in such places as Goblin Fruit, Best Horror of the Year, vol. 5, edited by Ellen Datlow, and Strange Horizons. You may visit her raven’s nest at sandileibowitz.com.